Title: Housing abandonment in Mexican metropolitan areas :analyzing planning strategies to reduce housing abandonment in theMetro Area of Guadalajara; Analyzing planning strategies to reduce housingabandonment in the Metro Area of Guadalajara
Abstract: This thesis examines the potential impact and
limitations that current metropolitan efforts on urban planning in
the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara could have in reducing the
high rates of housing abandonment the city currently faces.
Previous efforts to reduce housing abandonment in the city have not
delivered the expected results, and the metropolitan government of
Guadalajara has laid out a new Metropolitan Urban Development Plan
(POTmet) that seeks to rethink housing allocation and reduce home
abandonment. In this document I analyze POTmet's housing allocation
and abandonment strategies through interviews with key stakeholders
involved in the elaboration process of the plan. I create a
narrative around these interviews to understand how stakeholders'
interests translate into the final strategy outlined in the POTmet.
Later, I contrast these findings with previous efforts to reduce
housing abandonment in Guadalajara and with the factors that are
currently understood as determinants of the abandonment problem. I
discuss what the success and limitations of the POTmet could be in
reducing housing abandonment and conclude that, while the POTmet
successfully brings together key stakeholders that could work
together to reduce home abandonment, previous interests that have
driven the abandonment problem in the city are still present in the
new proposal. The POTmet also fails to target important
contributing factors of abandonment, diminishing its potential for
success. I discuss these findings and propose new lines of research
and action that the City of Guadalajara can take to achieve its
objectives to reduce housing abandonment.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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